This is Gregor Mendel. He was a monk who lived in Austria.

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This is Gregor Mendel. He was a monk who lived in Austria.

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This is Gregor Mendel. He was a monk who lived in Austria. This is Mendel’s garden. Mendel grew peas. Many peas. He liked peas a lot. Here are some of his jars of peas. He knew peas reproduced sexually (with and egg and pollen), and he began to control what peas - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: This is Gregor Mendel.  He was a monk who lived in Austria.

This is Gregor Mendel. He was a monk who lived in Austria.

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This isMendel’s garden.

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Mendel grew peas. Many peas.

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He liked peas a lot. Here are some of his jars of peas.

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He knew peas reproduced sexually (with and egg and pollen), and he began to control what peas crossed with other peas.

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“Funny,” he thought. “Some of my peas are tall. Some are short.”

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“If I cross a tall pea with a short pea, I get only tall peas.”

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Mendel, a friend, and his tall peas.

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“But when I take two tall pea children from that cross and mix them, I get some tall and some short. Hmmm….”

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Mendel

Started

Adding.

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He started countingall of the short peashe got, and all of the

tall peas.

He seems very puzzled

in this photo.

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Gregor Mendel is called “The father of modern genetics” because of his work breeding and analyzing peas in the 1800’s. He looked carefully at his numbers, andthought hard about:

PROBABILITY- the chance somethingwill happen. Expressed in percentageor fraction or ratio. Ex. 25% or 1/4 or 1:3